If you get to pick how the universe is arranged in the future, would you rather it be lifeless and full of shit, or lifeless and full of brilliant art? I’m gonna guess that you, like me, would prefer art.
This is an aesthetic preference about how you’d rather the atoms in the universe be arranged. You don’t need to justify it by any deeper principle, it doesn’t matter that you’re not around to care in either case, it’s sufficient for you to prefer universes full of art to universes full of shit as a raw preference, and this can motivate you to steer the future to favor one over the other.
I find universes full of cosmopolitan civilizations good, and universes full of suffering bad, in just this raw way.
You might also call it “non person-affecting preferences over the use of atoms in the universe.”
If you get to pick how the universe is arranged in the future, would you rather it be lifeless and full of shit, or lifeless and full of brilliant art? I’m gonna guess that you, like me, would prefer art.
This is an aesthetic preference about how you’d rather the atoms in the universe be arranged. You don’t need to justify it by any deeper principle, it doesn’t matter that you’re not around to care in either case, it’s sufficient for you to prefer universes full of art to universes full of shit as a raw preference, and this can motivate you to steer the future to favor one over the other.
I find universes full of cosmopolitan civilizations good, and universes full of suffering bad, in just this raw way.
You might also call it “non person-affecting preferences over the use of atoms in the universe.”